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ἑλκύδριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑλκύδριον ἑλκύδριου

Structure: ἑλκυδρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a slight sore

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ κυλίχνιόν γέ σοι καὶ φάρμακον δίδωμι τἀν τοῖσιν ἀντικνημίοισ ἑλκύδρια περιαλείφειν. (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme 1:20)
  • Εἰδέναι μὲν δή που σάφα χρὴ, ὅτι ἀνάγκη τὸν ἄνθρωπον χωλὸν αἰσχρῶσ γενέσθαι‧ καὶ γὰρ ὁ ποὺσ ἐσ τὸ ἄνω ἀνέσπασται τῶν τοιούτων, καὶ τὰ ὀστέα τὰ διολισθήσαντα ἔξω ἐξέχοντα φαίνεται‧ οὔτε γὰρ ψιλοῦται τῶν τοιούτων ὀστέων οὐδὲν ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πουλὺ, εἰ μὴ κατὰ βραχύ τι, οὔτε ἀφίσταται, ἀλλὰ περιωτειλοῦται λεπτῇσιν ὠτειλῇσι καὶ ἀσθενέσι, καὶ ταῦτα, ἢν ἀτρεμίζωσι πουλὺν χρόνον‧ ἢν δὲ μὴ, ἑλκύδριον ἐγκαταλειφθῆναι κίνδυνοσ ἀναλθέσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 63.7)
  • ζήτησον πρῶτον σταλῆναί σου τὸ ῥεῦμα, τὰ ἑλκύδρια ἀπουλωθῆναι. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 22:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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